Many people are expressing shock about President Donald Trump announcing last week that he was revoking former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan’s security clearance. Trump’s action even violates Brennan’s First Amendment right to free speech,...
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A Large, Expensive US Air Force Base in Africa
by Adam Dick | Aug 23, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In July of 2016, Nick Turse wrote at The Intercept about “1,700 Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets, and other military personnel” who were then “carrying out 78 distinct ‘mission sets’ in more than 20 nations” across Africa. This military activity is in line with the...
More US Sanctions on Russia: RPI’s Daniel McAdams on Why Trump’s Being Played
by RPI Staff | Aug 22, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Is President Trump even in any kind of control of his own Administration? His Treasury Department has slapped new sanctions on Russia over a list of grievances that sound like they could have come from a Hillary or an Obama Administration. Poll after poll shows that...
More US Marines Coming to Norway, a Strange Way to Seek Friendship with Russia
by Adam Dick | Aug 21, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Donald Trump says he wants to improve relations between the United States and Russia, and he met in July with Russia President Vladimir Putin largely in a purported effort to move toward this goal. Yet, the Trump administration continues to send more US...
Brennan: ‘We have never before seen the approval or removal of security clearances used as a political tool’
by Peter van Buren | Aug 20, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Last week Trump suspended former CIA head John Brennan’s security clearance.His defenders immediately rose to declare this shall not stand. Twelve former intelligence officials signed a statement criticizing Trump’s decision, claiming “We have never before seen the...
John Miska’s Heroic Resistance in Charlottesville, Virginia
by Adam Dick | Aug 15, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Reading Rutherford Institute President John W. Whitehead’s Monday editorial “From Boston to Ferguson to Charlottesville: The Evolution of a Police State Lockdown,” I wanted to find out more about an arrest Whitehead mentions took place over the weekend in his hometown...
Ron Paul: We Need Alternatives to Social Media Companies that Are Silencing Dissent
by Adam Dick | Aug 9, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Interviewed Tuesday at RT, libertarian communicator Ron Paul weighed in on social media companies’ purges this week that have affected individuals including popular talk show host Alex Jones and Ron Paul Institute Executive Director Daniel McAdams. Paul argues that...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Twitter Purge, Alex Jones, More to Come, Government Pressure, Falling Giants
by Adam Dick | Aug 9, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is out. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud. Listen to the new episode here: Read a transcript of the new episode,...
Peter Van Buren: Twitter Suspends Me Forever
by Peter van Buren | Aug 7, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Some readers are aware I have been permanently suspended from Twitter as @wemeantwell.This followed exchanges with several mainstream journalists over their support for America’s wars and unwillingness to challenge the lies of government. After two days of silence,...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Criticizing Media, Bipartisanship, NY Marijuana, Weapons Salesman, Conflicting Votes
by Adam Dick | Aug 5, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is out. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud. Listen to the new episode here: Read a transcript of the new episode,...
TSA Passenger Screening Could Be Eliminated at 150-plus Airports
by Adam Dick | Aug 1, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It seems that United States government actions taken in the name of “security” become more oppressive each year. This trend can be seen in the activities of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that corrals people into checkpoints at airports for...
Facebook Deletes 32 Pages; Blames Russians
by RPI Staff | Aug 1, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Out of more than 2.2 billion Facebook users, the company yesterday dramatically announced that it had discovered 32 accounts it considered "inauthentic." The mainstream media - and Facebook's US government-funded partner the Atlantic Council -- screamed that this must...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Defending Assange, Gerald Celente, NJ Marijuana, Russia Non-threat, Libertarian Misinfo
by Adam Dick | Jul 29, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is out. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud. Listen to the new episode here: Read a transcript of the new episode,...
Will Russia ‘Meddle’ to Help Democrats in November?
by RPI Staff | Jul 25, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Trump Tweeted yesterday that the Russians may actually want to help the Democrats in the coming midterm elections because he's been far harder on Russia than the Democrats have. More bluster or is he now running even more enthusiastically with the Beltway...
Trump Tweets War Warning, Pompeo Wants Regime Change: US Iran Attack Coming Soon?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 23, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Trump sent out a red-hot Tweet last night threatening Iran with destruction if it does not stop threatening the US over US threats to change the Iranian regime. Round and round it goes, with the well-funded neocon think tanks pushing ever-harder for a US...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Cash, United California, Marijuana Regs, Trump Judges, Intelligence Community
by Adam Dick | Jul 23, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues has been posted. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud.Listen to the new episode here:Read a transcript of the new...
Who is Bill Browder and Why is Putin so Interested in Him?
by RPI Staff | Jul 21, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
At the now-famous Helsinki press conference with Presidents Trump and Putin the name of a former US businessman, Bill Browder, came up as a person of interest to the Russian president. Let's make a deal, he said: you can come to Moscow and question the 12 GRU officers...
New Poll: What If Russophobes Held A Rally And No One Came?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 19, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new Gallup poll may spell trouble for Democrats hoping to cash in on what they believe is an anti-Russia feeling among American voters. The percentage of people who believe that Russia is a great threat to the United States is so low that it is almost unmeasurable....
Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch Show to Return to Fox Television
by Adam Dick | Jul 18, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
At the end of a new video interview with Nick Gillespie at Reason, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano says that his Freedom Watch show, which aired on Fox Business from 2010 through 2012, will return to Fox television, “probably before...
Ron Paul Pleased with how President Trump Handled Himself at Trump-Putin Meeting
by Adam Dick | Jul 17, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
International peace and trade advocate Ron Paul, in a new RT interview, praised how United States President Donald Trump handled himself at a meeting in Helsinki, Finland this week with Russia President Vladimir Putin. Says Paul, “I was sort of pleased with the way...
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